Communication & Media Studies at Albion College

If you are interested in studying communication and media studies, you may want to check out the program at Albion College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Albion is located in Albion, Michigan and has a total student population of 1,506. Of the 376 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Albion College in 2021, 31 of them were communication and media studies majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Communication & Media Studies section at the bottom of this page.

Albion Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Albion Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Albion performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at Albion is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communication & Media Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	28
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	206
	284
	292
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	473
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	554
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools	588

Earnings of Albion Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Albion is $33,356. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 3% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at Albion

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Albion College.

Albion Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 31 communications students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Albion, about 55% were men and 45% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Albion since its program graduates 19% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communications bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Albion College with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	13
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Albion also has a doctoral program available in communications. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising

Careers That Communications Grads May Go Into

A degree in communications can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Albion College.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Public Relations Specialists	6,280	$61,760
Editors	1,670	$58,150
Reporters and Correspondents	1,190	$47,110
Writers and Authors	1,120	$60,850
Communications Professors	900	$71,770

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Unknown under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.